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Japanese has two kinds of alphabet, Hiragana and Katakana. Hiragana is used when we have no Japanese characters (Kanji) for the words or we don't remember the right Kanji. Katakana is used mainly for foreign names. Basically, Japanese has only five vowels, a, i, u, e, o. In connection with consonants, k, s, t, n, h (or f) m, y, we have 48 alphabet. Try Japanese Virtual Keyboard which generate Hiragana and Katakana!
Hiragana
Katakana
ka
ki
ku
ke
ko
ka
ki
ku
ke
ko
sa
shi su
se
so
sa
shi su
se
so
ta
chi tsu te
to
ta
chi tsu te
to
na
ni
nu
ne
no
na
ni
nu
ne
no
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ha
hi
hu
he
ho
ha
hi
hu
he
ho
ma mi
mu me mo ma mi
mu me mo
ya
yu
yo
ya
yu
yo
ra
ri
ru
re
ro
ra
ri
ru
re
ro
wq wo
wq wo
nn
nn
Hiragana
Katakana
ga
gi
gu
ge
go
ga
gi
gu
ge
go
za
zi
zu
ze
zo
za
zi
zu
ze
zo
da
zdi
zdu
de
do
da
zdi
zdu
de
do
ba
bi
bu
bw
bo
ba
bi
bu
bw
bo
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pa
pi
pu
pe po pa
pi
pu
pe po
Bibliography Beginner's Kana Workbook : Practice Drills for Writing Hiragana and Katakana Fujihiko Kaneda, Masaya Katayama / Paperback / Published 1997 Easy Hiragana : First Steps to Reading and Writing Basic Japanese Fujihiko Kaneda, et al / Paperback / Published 1989 Easy Kana Workbook : Basic Practice in Hiragana and Katakana for Japanese Language Students Rita Lampkin, Osamu Hoshino (Contributor) / Paperback / Published 1991 A Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakana Kenneth G. Henshall, Tetsuo Takagaki / Paperback / Published 1990 Hiragana Gambatte! : Hiragana Ganbatte Deleece Batt, Adachi Office (Illustrator) / Paperback / Published 1994 Introduction to Written Japanese : Hiragana (Tuttle Language Library) Jim Gleeson / Paperback / Published 1997 Kana Pict-O-Graphix : Mnemonics for Japanese Hiragana and Katakana Michael Rowley / Paperback / Published 1998 Let's Learn Hiragana Yasuko K. Mitamura / Paperback / Published 1985 Remembering the Hiragana : A Complete Course on How to Teach Yourself the Japanese Syllabary in 3 Hours James W. Heisig, James W. Heising (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1990 Japanese ABC's : Hiragana Learning Cards Seiko Huntington / Paperback / Published 1988 Let's Learn Hiragana & Katakana : Two Books of Basic Japanese Writing/Boxed Set Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura / Paperback / Published 1992
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